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By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times

January 11, 2015

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Anita Ekberg, the busty blond former Miss Sweden who became a Hollywood sex symbol in the 1950s and famously waded into Rome’s Trevi Fountain in a revealing, strapless black evening gown in Federico Fellini’s classic 1960 film “La Dolce Vita,” has died. She was 83.

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Samuel Goldwyn Jr. dies at 88; Hollywood scion forged his own path

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By David Colker

Los Angeles Times

January 9, 2015

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Samuel Goldwyn Jr., who was born into one of the founding families of the Hollywood studio system but became a champion of independent film productions, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 88.

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Bess Myerson, Miss America who rose in politics and fell in scandal, dies at 90

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By Elaine Woo

Los Angeles Times

January 5, 2014

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Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tarnished by scandal, has died. She was 90.